A Calm Storm

The blog of Sholeh Samadani Munion

Category: Thoughts

Isolation

Isolation

After so many years of blogging, recent years have shown me that my desire to write has diminished – probably because I have been busy with lots of other things! But this is a chance to write down what I’m…

There is no safety.

I’ve been thinking a lot about safety recently. About insurance, vaccines, outbreaks, and all of these scary things in the world. In my line of work, I have to. I spend my time planning giant meetings where hundreds of people…

Waiting

Some days are a waiting game. Some weeks are. The feeling of helplessness is never good for me. I want to take action, solve problems, help people! The roadblocks sometimes seem insurmountable. Taking deep breaths and just…waiting. For everything.

The Power of We

“Blog Action Day brings together bloggers from different countries, interests and languages to blog about one important global topic on the same day.”  The idea of “service” has been on my mind a lot recently- how do we serve others?…

Hope

so sweet and quiet. i’ll take the mosquitoes at dusk and the green grass, the park as the sun sets. i will close my eyes as the waves wash over me…i can’t look straight at the sun. i’ll take starlit…

I like…#11

Fields of grass, even though I’m highly allergic. the sand washing away from my feet laughing with old friends & retelling the stories of our past bright colors photoshoots honesty the way I feel after a long day in the…

The value of these days

“The doors of the Kingdom are opened. The lights of the Sun of Truth are shining. The clouds of divine mercy are raining down their priceless jewels. The zephyrs of a new and divine springtime are wafting their fragrant breaths…

Wo(men)

I don’t involve myself in internet debates/comment discussions on websites. There is absolutely no point. However, in some of the discussions I’ve seen recently over at The Good Men Project (one of the few sites of this kind that I…

Five years

5 years ago today at 1:00 pm, my plane landed in Haifa, Israel. I was starting 18 months of service at the Baha’i World Center. I waited for 2 hours at the airport because the person who was picking me…

just.be.here.

there are a dozen things on the list that I carry in my head. technology tries to help me but in the end, I am left with this. write it down, go from here to there to here, with these…

never ending winter

It has been a long winter. Not necessarily bad, but…long. It is mid-March and I look outside to see gray skies, the pervasive gray that hovers over my thoughts and makes everything the same. I started setting up my haft-sin…

lucky stars

There are a few ways to count lucky stars. In the quiet way, 1 2 3 in a row, listed in order, in a way that makes you think of libraries, lace doilies, and trying too hard. Then there are…

reminders

It happens every few weeks, or months.  A reminder of what I left behind.  It comes with a sudden warm, coastal wind, or a flower that I saw every day, or a friend’s smiling face.  It sometimes sneaks up, like…

Goodbye

I am mired in this in-between state, keeping emotions at bay and I can’t seem to process anything right now.  My days are on the edge of frantic, the evenings a collapse into numb mindlessness.  I am scattered, but to…

September

For years I have railed against the end of summer, the beginning of autumn.  September was always a month of conflict for me: it is my birth month, but also when school would start up again, and when the weather…

A summer picnic

The sun was gliding past the trees, we found a wide patch of sun that set the grass aglow, peered into our eyes, and warmed our skin. The proper ingredients for a picnic are: 1. a thick blanket, large enough…

this is life.

the best thing about walking through a crowd is the variety.  to know all of their stories would be too much, we only see pieces of the parts of the person that they are. humans are so strange.  we are…

waiting

“With aching hearts, Baha’is of the world focus on the events unfolding in Iran, the birthplace of their religion.” -Baha’i World News Service Every day I read the news.  Whatever tragedy has happened in the world, the media is covering…

There it is.

There it is.  Moments that you can taste, hold in your hands and not let out of your sight.  We sigh in vain after the past, we hold our breath and count the stars. Tonight my heart broke, mended, and…

I like…#8

open faces that smile a lot foggy days when the rain barely mists down overhearing strange conversations New York City the way words can mean so many different things dancing for hours feeling like I am back in Haifa patterns…

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